Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here back to show off a new batch of monthly challenges. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st (the BYOC Challenge is posted on the 1st Friday of the month.) You can use the challenges simply to inspire you to keep creating new layouts OR you can also earn yourself a fabulous coupon for your next shopping trip in the Lilypad Store. (2 challenges = 10%, 4 challenges = 20% and 6 challenges = 30%). Those who complete at least 7 challenges will be entered in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate! Isn’t that an awesome prize?!?! You’ll get lots of great memories captured in your scrapbooks AND you could win a fat gift certificate prize!!! Pretty great, right?! So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!
1. Random Challenge – First up for July is the Random Challenge hosted by Em (Justagirl). Em has a challenge she calls “Cut Out Fancies” where she wants you to incorporate a paper scrapping style of cutting out some negative space in your layout. Em has a list of great ideas of how to add cutouts to your layout in the challenge thread in the forum and she created a Pinterest board for more ideas. Here is a gorgeous page Em created:
2. Scraplift Challenge – The Scraplift Challenge for July is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she has selected The Pocket Scrapping Gallery to scraplift from this month. Simply go to the Pocket Scrapping Gallery and select a page that you love and then create your own layout inspired by it. Natasha chose this gorgeous page by Polly Maribel and then made a scraplifted version:
by Polly Maribel (Mrivas):
by Natasha:
3. Style Challenge – The Style Challenge for July is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she wants you to create a casual style layout by using at least 3 photos that overlap each other. Here is a great sample layout that Heather created using this style:
4. Photography Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is hosting this month’s Photography Challenge. She wants you to get outside and photograph some nature and then create a layout using them. Here is a beautiful “nature” layout that Lori created:
5. Template Challenge – Jan (IntenseMagic), is hosting the Template Challenge for July. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Allison Pennington and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Jan created:
6. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for July is hosted by Christa (cfile) and she wants you to create a layout this month with journaling about a fond memory. Christa created the following layout with her own fond memory:
7. Inspiration Challenge – Our Guest Polly Serena is hosting this month’s Inspiration Challenge. Serena has a really cool idea to create a layout inspired by “six” … use either six words to tell your story, or use six photos or even six lines of journaling. Here is a layout created by Serena using six photos:
8. BYOC – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Ashley (ashleywb) on Friday July 6th, when the new BYOC collection for July will be released in the store. This challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from the current BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
There you have your overview of another month of inspiring challenges by our Pollys. Once you create your own layouts inspired by these challenges, be sure to post them to the appropriate galleries as listed above. Then be sure to also post them to the appropriate thread in the challenge forum. See the thread HERE for further challenge guidelines and see the July Challenge Pad HERE to get started! Don’t forget to post all of your completed layouts in the Challenge Layouts thread so we can be sure to get you the proper coupon at the end of the month. I’ll be back near the end of the month to shine my spotlight on some of the pages created for these challenges! I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Happy scrapping!
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